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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this vision was one of the thunderbolts in my life." Another fan-Aaron Russo, signed on as Midler's manager in 1971, while she was still at the Baths, and they briefly were lovers. Their eight-year affiliation was productive and destructive; they were two strong wills making success possible and life miserable. "Aaron began booking me into theaters," Bette says, "and lo and behold, I was a big success. For our first full revue, we had our backup trio, the Harlettes, and a great band and girls in tap-dancing clothes and the jukebox and the mannequins and King...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bette Midler Steals Hollywood | 3/2/1987 | See Source »

...that. But I did get the bras." Nor does she make many distinctions among her three recent hits: "Was it Outrageous Ruthless People in Beverly Hills? The films have certainly indicated a direction to stay in. The whole package is a surprise: to be a box-office success hand in hand with Disney. A real shocker. I mean, Walt Disney never would have hired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bette Midler Steals Hollywood | 3/2/1987 | See Source »

...cult trumpets be raised: Hollywood is stagestruck again. Children of a Lesser God corrals five Oscar nominations; Crimes of the Heart blossoms into a modest, megastar success; Brighton Beach Memoirs and 'night, Mother find their way to film. All of which means . . . very little. Perhaps that there is lower financial risk in stories with few characters and no special effects. Or that the ravenous appetite of the home-video market can be easily stoked with product that has proved its value in another venue. Or that moguls have decided to bankroll a few films with their wives in mind instead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Don't Put Your Drama Onscreen | 3/2/1987 | See Source »

...insider transgressions, that development may be deserved. Many Wall Street firms have imposed unrealistic expectations on their traders and bankers without giving them a solid grounding in old-fashioned ethical values. By pushing salaries and bonuses to outlandish heights, investment firms have turned money into the ultimate measure of success. Declares Felix Rohatyn, senior partner of the investment firm Lazard Freres, in an essay for the New York Review of Books: "Too much money is coming together with too many young people who have little or no institutional memory, or sense of tradition, and who are under enormous pressure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Pinstripes to Prison Stripes | 3/2/1987 | See Source »

...support, to gain control over the military (not an uncommon problem, incidentally, for American friends from the Philippines to Guatemala). Critics point to the lack of significant contra military gains until now as proof that they cannot win. Perhaps. But it is equally possible that the lack of success has to do with two years of a grossly unbalanced arms race between the contras and the Sandinistas. Such imbalances are not rectified overnight, nor do they lend themselves to military spectaculars by the disarmed party. Guerrilla war requires arms, training and, above all, time for building an infrastructure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Should the U.S. Support the Contras? | 3/2/1987 | See Source »

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